[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“I will never be half the Man your father was”

I am reminded of a man in my youth who could set for hours and tell us of his exploits in the war. It would make my dad, who served with Patton, so mad, as this blowhard had never been out of the USA.

Dad rarely talked about what he did or saw. When he did, it was horrible.

[DoodleBob]

Understood - the quiet ones usually are the "heros." For the record, her father didn't lead discussions with what he did. But his actions were know in the community, so it came up from time to time.

To this point, on paper, a former First Lady, Secretary of State and Senator with a JD seems to be of better presidential stock vs a lifelong real estate developer and reality TV star. But his mettle has been tested in the hot seat and he's emerged as the better of the two, while when her mettle was tested she cried "what difference does it make?"

[Bull Snipe]

When I was young, most of the adult men I knew were veterans of WWII. Those that saw the war up close and personal with the Germans and Japanese never wanted to talk much about it. The did their duty, they survived, it was over, let us get on with our lives and forget the those days of horror and death.